The Cook Book of Left-Overs

What to do with left-over everything, 1911 — beef to cake, four hundred ways to use what the last meal left behind.

Left-Over Cake and Beverages

13 recipes in this part of The Cook Book of Left-Overs.

What to Do with Left-Over Cake

Mock Plum Pudding (Cake) Two cups stale cake-crumbs softened in about one-quarter cup hot milk. If crumbs are very dry it may take a little…

Foamy Sauce

1 cup butter cup light-brown sugar A few drops lemonjuice 4 tablespoonfuls of cream or rich milk teaspoonful vanilla Cream the butter, add…

Trifle

Cut stale cake into slices and spread preserves between them. Lay in a deep dish and heap full of whipped cream.

Banana- and Jam-Pudding

In a buttered earthen baking - dish slice four good-sized bananas. Sprinkle them lightly with lemon-juice, and cover them with a layer of…

Temperance Tidbits

Moisten with lemon-juice enough stale ladyfingers or thin slices of stale sponge-cake to well cover the bottom of a glass dish holding a…

Cake

partly cool add one-half teaspoonful of vanilla, and pour over the cake. When ready to serve beat the whites to a stiff froth, adding one…

Sponge-cake Porcupine

Cut as large squares as possible from stale sponge-cake. Place in pudding-dish, moisten with sweetened orange-juice. Blanch almonds and…

Berry Whip

Fill a dish with slices of stale sponge-cake. Sugar a quart of berries, mash them slightly, and pour over cake. Beat whites of three eggs…

Sandwiches

It is sometimes advisable to utilize the cut slices of fresh bread that are left over by making them into sandwiches at once, and serving…

Filling for Tarts

Take any odds and ends in the way of jelly, preserves, stewed fruit cut in small pieces, pudding

Dainty Dishes from Little Bits

sauces, bits of orange, cake-crumbs (dried for use as bread is dried). Combine to taste; do not have any one ingredient predominate, as…

Jerusalem Pudding

tablespoonful gela- Walnuts, figs, dates, tine half a cup together + cup boiling water teaspoonful vanilla + cup cold water pint heavy…

Dates Stuffed with Left-over Icing

Add enough more confectioner's sugar to any left-over uncooked icing to make it quite stiff, flavor it with a little more lemon-juice or…

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